New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1980.. 1980.. Very good. - Quarto [9-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The binding is lightly soiled & bumped & the bottom corner of the front wrap is lightly creased. Unpaginated. Profuse black- and-white illustrations. Near fine.
717 items are catalogued, most of them with an illustration. The catalog includes a list of estimated prices in the rear, and a list of prices realized is laid in. View More...
East Rutherford, NJ: Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc., 1988.. 1988.. Very good. - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide. Softcovers bound in printed gray wraps. The covers are soiled and creased at the corners. [48] pages, including a one page essay by Cheryl Finley and 62 superbly reproduced illustrations of Berenice Abbott's evocative photographs, including her famous portraits of James Joyce, Edward Hopper, Eugene Atget and Jean Cocteau, as well as her brilliant architectural and abstract photographs. There is a narrow discolored line along the bottom of the first 4 pages, and some minor c... View More...
(Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1989).. 1989).. Good. - Small oblong quarto [8-1/2 inches square], softcover bound in printed wrappers. The binding is rubbed & bumped with a small area of the front wrap rubbed away where a sticker has been removed. 53 & [1] pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. The contents are near fine. Good.
Catalog for an exhibition organized by Michael Bzdak and Charles Stainback and shown at the New Jersey State Museum from December 2, 1989 to January 28, 1990. View More...
(Carmel, CA): The Friends of Photography (1984).. (1984).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial white wrappers with an image from an Ansel Adams photograph stamped in blind on the front cover. The binding is very lightly bumped with creasing to the top corner of the front wrap. There is some light soiling & a few small stains to the wraps. There are 2 price- stickers on the rear wrap. 56 pages. Full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. Very good. Untitled 37. The Untitled series, published by the Friends of Photography,... View More...
- Royal octavo, 10-3/8 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Orange cloth titled in black on the front cover and the spine. The covers are lightly soiled. viii, 430 & [6] pages, profusely illustrated throughout. A previous owner's name and address is penned in red at the top of the front endpaper. There is offsetting to the endpapers and pastedowns. The book has a musty odor. Good.
Seventh edition.
Included are articles by Ansel Adams "A Design For Printing", Berenice Abbott "How To Use a View Camera", Barbara Morgan "Photographing The Dance", among others. View More...
- Quarto, 10-3/4 inches high by 9-3/8 inches wide. Black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a pictorial black & white dust wrapper. [150] pages, with full-page illustrations of Ansel Adams stunning black & white photographs. Near fine.
[Stockholm, Sweden]: Wahlstrom & Widstrand, (2004).. (2004).. Fine. - Quarto [12-38 inches high by 9-5/8 inches wide], cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is light creasing to the top corner of the dust jacket's rear panel & to the top end of its front fold. 277 pages plus colophon. Profuse photographic illustrations in black & white and color. Near fine.
With essays by Jesper Svenbro and additional 2000-2001 photography by Ake Hedstrom. The text is in Swedish. Dust jacket present. View More...
(Milano): Rizzoli Editore, (1976).. (1976).. Very good. - Small quarto, B&W printed wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & very lightly soiled. B&W frontispiece, [viii] pp., 62 full-page B&W illustrations from photographs by Thomas Alcorn, & [3] pp. plus colophon. Very good. First edition.In his introduction, which is printed in English and Italian, photography teacher Bernard Cole recalls his excitement on being shown photos Tommy Alcorn had taken on a trip to Italy at the age of fourteen. Tragically, the young man was killed in an accident in Florence just short of his eighteenth birthday. F... View More...
(Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1981).. 1981).. Fine. - Quarto, black cloth titled in silver on the front cover & spine. All the edges are silver. The covers are lightly bumped. 396 pages. Profuse photographic illustrations in color & black & white. Near fine.
(Paris: Alain Paviot & Cie., 1996).. 1996).. Fine. - Quarto [approximately 10-1/2 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], navy blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. Half-title, title, 40 plates in color and black & white & [10] pages plus colophon. Fine.
First edition. The minimal text is in French. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Albuquerque, NM: Published for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the University of New Mexico Press, (1986).. (1986).. Very good. - Oblong quarto [9 inches high by 12 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are lightly bumped. 208 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and llack & white. Near fine.
First edition, wraps issue. First Edition. View More...
New York: The Viking Press, (1980).. (1980).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9-1/8 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. The extremities are very slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed & lightly chipped with a tear & some light staining to the bottom edge of the front panel. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated in black & white. The top edges of the pages are lightly rippled, probably from humidity. Very good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
- Quarto, 13-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. Reddish brown cloth, titled in white on the spine, in a pictorial dust wrapper. 276 pages, with the text printed on tan stock. Profusely illustrated by Carol Beckwith with color photographs & textual drawings. Near fine. A reprint of the 1980 edition.Inscribed by the photographer Carol Beckwith on the front endpaper, and signed in full "Carol Beckwith".The author of the text is himself a Maasai who, after earning warrior status, spent six years in the United States studying animal ecology and lecturing and writing on the culture of the Maasa... View More...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, (1983).. (1983).. Fine. - Quarto [13-1/4 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide], cloth, in a dust wrapper. There is a faint glue stain where a price sticker has been removed from the front panel of the dust jacket; the rear panel is lightly rubbed with a price-sticker in the bottom corner. 224 pages with the text printed on tan stock. Profuse color photographic illustrations by Carol Beckwith. A near fine copy of a handsome and beautifully illustrated book.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: IN Publishing, (1991).. (1991).. Very good. - Quarto, black cloth titled in silver on spine & front cover, in B&W dw. The covers are bumped. The dw is lightly rubbed & very lightly chipped. 256 pp. Profuse full-page B&W illustrations from photographs by Peter Bellamy. Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE GERMAN CONDUCTOR & VIOLINIST ALOIS SPRINGER TO LEONARD BERNSTEIN - Quarto, 13-3/4 inches high by 10-1/2 inches wide. White cloth titled in black on the spine, in the original black dust wrapper which is contrastingly titled in white. The edges of the covers are darkened and there are soiling & tiny black marks to the rear cover. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped with tears to the edges of the rear panel, including a longer 3 inch tear to its top edge. The jacket's rear panel is also soiled & stained. 192 pages, with profuse full-page black & whi... View More...
(Paris): Christie's, 2005.. 2005.. Very good. - Quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers. There are small areas of light rubbing to the wraps, with a small glue stain to the rear wrap. 145 pages. Profuse black-and-white & sepia-toned photographic illustrations. The contents are fine. Very good.
122 items are catalogued. The text, which is in French, includes four pages of quotations from Claude Berry, Man Ray, Bill Brandt and others. View More...
Munchen, Paris, London: Schirmer / Mosel, 1999.. 1999.. Fine. - Folio, 13-1/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide. Gray boards titled in green on the front cover and the spine, in a pictorial white dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly soiled. 101 & [3] pages, with profuse full-page illustrations of Blossfeldt's black & white photographs. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper. Karl Blossfeldt [1865-1932] took thousands of photographs of plants over a period or more than thirty years, using them in the classes he taught for students of industrial design and demonstrating that some of the best s... View More...
Toronto, Canada: Impressions, 1978.. 1978.. Very good. SIGNED BY GLENN LEWIS ON THE TITLE PAGE - Quarto [15 inches high by 11 inches wide], softcover bound in black-and-white pictorial wrappers. The wraps are lightly bumped & creased with the head & tail of the spine chipped. 32 & [2] pages. Profuse 3/4-page black-and-white illustrations with a small area of text below each. The bottom page corners are lightly bumped. Very good. A special issue of Impressions. Impressions No. 20.Signed in full by Glenn Lewis on the title page.This book grew out of a journey taken by photographers Glenn Lewis a... View More...
Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, circa [1994].. [1994].. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11-3/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The wraps are bumped & lightly rubbed with some minor soiling. There is a small white stain to the top corner of the front wrap. 98 & [3] pages and 32 pages. Color illustrations. There is a price sticker on the inside front wrap & the top page corners are lightly bumped. Very good. Catalog for an exhibition curated by Timothy Eaton of the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida and Nissan Perez of the Museum of Israel, Jeru... View More...